The Truth About Cars

MARCH 21, 2024

Rather, it requires carmakers to meet tough new average emissions limits across their entire product line. Perhaps the government's claims about the environmental impact are too optimistic and complying with the new rule won't be effective in the fight against man-made climate change.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) represents the top producers of sugar and ethanol in the country’s South-Central region, especially the state of Sao Paulo, which accounts for about 50% of the country’s sugarcane harvest and 60% of total ethanol production. 152,945 autos, 25,748 light commercial.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 23, 2024

The auto industry is electrifying, and all new cars will be electric in the relatively near future. And yet, the auto industry – which is responsible for more pollution than any other sector, at least in rich countries – still lobbies to worsen emissions reduction targets, even when those targets were already pushed back to begin with.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The Auto Alliance represents 77% of all car and light truck sales in the United States, including the BMW Group, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Company, Jaguar Land Rover, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz USA, Mitsubishi Motors, Porsche, Toyota, Volkswagen Group of America and Volvo Car USA. Background.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

Negative reaction to the widely expected announcement was voluminous and vociferous: Ceres: “Rolling back the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and emissions standards will undermine the global competitiveness of the US auto industry. This is not a technical assessment, it is a move to demolish the nation’s clean car program.

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Polestar boss Thomas Ingenlath with the Precept concept, which is heading for production as the Polestar 5. The government will issue a discussion paper on emissions strategy for auto industry comment and response this month. Among those recently quoted warning caution are BMW and tier one auto supplier Bosch.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As the second-most populous country in the world and one of the largest consumers of fossil fuels, India is making significant strides in adopting electric vehicles (EVs) as a solution to combat climate change and reduce air pollution. Moreover, electric autos contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2014

This started to change with the establishment of a more active, collaborative industrial policy driven by the need to cut carbon emissions from the sector and protect against climate change. UK automotive production and exports are rising and there is a recent strong revival in R&D spending.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2009

The bill is structured into four primary titles: Title I: Clean Energy; Title II: Energy Efficiency; Title III: Reducing Global Warming Pollution (the cap-and-trade bill); and Title IV: Transitioning to a Clean Energy Economy (which also includes a section on adapting to climate change). Electric Vehicle Infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The study also suggests that a long-term Cash-for-Clunkers program may be more suitable to CO 2 e reduction because with such a program policymakers could send a clear, long-term signal to auto manufacturers for more fuel-efficient vehicles. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. Specific requirements can vary greatly.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. But we are committed to the goal of a re-tooled, re-imagined auto industry that can compete and win. It begins with energy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2009

Sue Cischke, Ford group vice president, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering, pointed to the “ key role ” government policies such as fuel standards and greenhouse gas emission regulations, play in the development and support of Ford’s product and technology pathways. Earlier post.) Sue Cischke. Ford received a $62.7

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

AeroVironment had encouraged its engineers to take creative initiative in developing the Impact, but GM tightly managed efforts to translate the idiosyncratic car into a production prototype, which rankled Cocconi and Rippel. The result was a demonstration project, a task organized by Alec Brooks , manager of ACP’s tzero production.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 10, 2023

Looking ahead, Stuttgart will likely continue to be the heart of the German auto industry, but how long will the IC engine remain the heart of the automobile? Even the most successful manufacturers must adapt to changing conditions. It is worth noting just how significant a shift this is for a major global industry.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

For example, EU companies that supply fuel-efficient start-stop mechanisms would benefit from an increase in revenue, due to an increase in demand for their products. The impact in Phase II are typified by higher costs of technology and greater avoided fuel costs. —“An Economic Assessment of Low Carbon Vehicles”.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 17, 2006

Feb 17, 2006 SYNOPSIS: Lewis Booth acknowledged the importance of climate change and the responsibility to take action, calling for greater support for a more holistic approach to the challenges raised by sustainable mobility. This is a major announcement from a major manufacturer.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

It allows supplier and manufacturer cost reduction through multiple product generation. Scott Miller, the CEO of research firm Synovate, also noted that while “ things don’t look so good ” for the auto industry right now, hybrids and plug-in hybrids are still favored by consumers against other advanced fuel-saving technologies. “.the

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Well, America’s auto industry delivered over 100,000. That helped us become the world’s greatest industrial power. It helps that the auto industry will be building more efficient new vehicles. That’s too long to wait to improve energy security, protect our economy, and address climate change.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

Scaling is hard Let me be very clear: Transitioning to electric vehicles and renewable energy to combat climate change are valid goals in themselves. Shifting the auto industry, an apex industry supporting a host of others to meet a new knowledge economy around EVs will be no easy task.”

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 5, 2009

. “If the history of previous downturns holds any lessons for us, it is that as an industry we must not lose sight of the importance of research, development and product innovation,&# he said.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2015

There have been and continue to be a number of market drivers forcing this evolution: concerns over health effects, congestion, consumption of petroleum-based fuels, climate change, an ever more rapidly increasing population and what appears to be an inexorable movement toward large-scale urbanization.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Below is an interview with Director Chris Paine and Journalist Robert Steadman with UK-based Blue and Green Tomorrow : ROB: Was it difficult to gain behind the scenes access to the auto industry after the first film? We knew we were vulnerable to car industry PR efforts and they knew they couldn't control what we did editorially.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2013

While last year it appeared that the auto industry as a whole would shift to R-1234yf, in September 2012, Daimler said that internal testing had identified safety (flammability) issues under certain conditions, and that it would not use R-1234yf in its products. BMW and Volkswagen followed suit.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2022

California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) Chair Liane Randolph told Reuters that its 2035 EV mandate was the “sweet spot,” given “where the automakers are, where the supply chains are, and where the production vehicles are.” Additionally, there are also price caps on the EVs that are eligible,—$55,000 for autos and $80,000 for SUVs or vans.

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EV Connect

MAY 16, 2022

While history is full of sharp left turns that took people by surprise, we still believe that electric vehicles are the future of the auto industry. That’s to say nothing of pollution and climate change. The future, indeed, seems electric. Some estimates mark us as running dry by 2060 … less than 40 years away.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 30, 2009

Automakers unveiled more than a dozen production-ready, plug-in electric and hybrid electric vehicles at the Detroit auto show earlier this month, many of which will be on dealership lots between 2010 and 2012. “The auto industry is aligned, the public is aligned, even the president is aligned.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

We must act quickly as the planet is warming due to CO 2 production from burning fossil fuels. This change in vehicles and fuel would provide our sought-for zero net CO 2 fueling or energy system. In addition, we need no more biofuel than what is currently in production now. This means 900 fewer gallons of gasoline used!

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

’s expertise on the auto industry in general, we are concerned that in its understanding of future pathways, it offers a flawed analysis and predictions based on business-as-usual,&# notes a posting on the California Car Initiative’s Web site. and Chrysler. Whatever B.C.G.’s Volt will survive and prosper,” G.M.’s

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is arguably the most significant piece of climate legislation the United States has ever seen, including significant investments in clean energy and consumer incentives to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) adoption. How the IRA will help tackle climate change.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2023

Bureau Veritas has partnered with digital platform provider OPTEL to create a traceability and sustainability assessment solution called V-Trace, which companies and government regulators can use to follow products through their supply chains, from extraction of the raw materials to final assembly. I joined BV in 2016.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

Nickel and cobalt have also tumbled, weighed down by an influx of new production amid concerns that the shift to EVs may not be as smooth and quick as predicted. It’s a dramatic reversal from the ebullience of recent years that sent prices soaring and sparked a rush by some of the auto industry’s biggest players to secure future supply.

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EV Match

JUNE 16, 2022

At a conference earlier this month, Ford CEO Jim Farley said the global auto industry will be facing a major EV price war in the coming years as costs fall and multiple automakers begin to sell EVs priced around $25,000 — in a move he says will “democratize EVs.”. I don’t know about you, but I find this very exciting! .

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

This is a company that has already invented new processes (the way it makes batteries) and products (the battery in its electric car) and it is focused on innovation. And if you doubt that they will learn, check out my cover story about BYD in the new issue of FORTUNE, headed to subscribers and newsstands this week.

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Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2024

News came out on Friday that President Biden is set to quadruple tariffs on Chinese EVs to protect the US auto industry from the rapid growth of Chinese EV manufacturing. The global auto industry is in a time of flux. Cars are changing quickly, as is car manufacturing. Why did this happen?

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